I don't touch Splinterlands as I am not very well in online games ...
To be honest apart from playing chess I have never been a gamer (and still don't consider me being one). Even if Splinterlands is a really nice, well concipated game, at first it's an investment for me which gave me financial freedom (as the very early cards which I bought are rather expensive now).
I assume there is no chance to see you active anymore?
Never say never, but it's true that the centralization of power in HIVE (in the hands of a few early miners and former bid bot owners) plus all these things behind the scenes (for example like delegating massive stakes and borrowing posting keys to be able to hide one's actions), then, in addition, all these automated upvoting which has nothing to do with curating of quality content (which would mean to seek, actually read, evaluate and manually upvote great posts), really frustrated me.
I think if someone considers himself purely as investor they should be able to just stake HIVE in order to earn interest but shouldn't upvote posts which they didn't read at all. There should be two different reward pools, one for stakers and one for real curators and authors.
Well, I am not optimistic concerning HIVE, but I just 'hibernate' and wait and see what might happen in future.
But since I know that you are active again, at least I will check your very interesting posts from time to time.
Mmmh I see and fully understand you frustration. At least on the personal side, I am reading all posts (written in English or French) curated by STEMsocial and try to engage the authors (the lack of engagement is probably the most frustrating thing IMO). Being able to do that is however related to the fact we form a small community.
All in all, I am probably a bit more optimistic than you about the future. We will see anyways (and thanks in advance for checking my blog once in a while) :D
The funny thing is that in this useless, wrong post now already more interaction (engagement) took place than in the majority of the trendig posts. ;-)
I discussed the engagement issue with @mobbs a few weeks ago. We didn't converge on a good explanation and concluded that this was somewhat random.
My ears are burning!
Yeah but I mean, Engagement has always been an issue since early Steem days. Top trending would get a lot because it would all be either drama with Bernie or something about the blockchain. Anything regarding art or daily life was heavily under-represented. That's just the nature of blogging for money, I suppose - No way around that